3 years ago had been the happiest day of their lives. They were married in front of all their friends and family and promised to support each other no matter what. They kept that promise in the beginning. Both of them had difficult and stressful lives to say the least. Kara had become a reporter and had fully taken on the role of Supergirl. She split her time between Catco and the DEO and at the end of the day came home to her wife that she loved more than anything. Lena was already very busy as the CEO of L-Corp and right before they had gotten married, she had also bought Catco. She split her time between the two corporations and even though she was busier than ever she put all her work away once she got home to focus on Kara. They were both on top of the world in their professional lives, but they always made time for each other.
The first two years of their marriage went by without a hitch, but something had shifted in the last year. They both started working longer hours at work and spending less time at home with each other. They slowly started growing apart and didn't feel the same need they used to feel to always be together. At first, they both thought it was a good thing. They thought they had passed the honeymoon phase and now just didn't need to be together 24/7. They saw each other at Catco when Lena was working there but both of them agreed they would still make time for each other at home. After a few months of this they both started to feel the disconnect. They started resenting the other one for choices that were made. Their communication got worse and there were many nights where they wouldn't even see one another. Kara would come home, and Lena would already be in bed asleep or Lena would come home, and Kara would be out on Supergirl duty. There was no big event that caused this divide. It was simply two people who were growing apart and putting most of their focus into their professional lives. Suddenly they had come to a point where even on nights they were both home, were filled with silence. They both would do their own activities or bring home work and sit in silence working on it. Neither of them even realized how bad it had become until the night Kara had gotten hurt.
Kara had seen Lena at Catco earlier in the day and left early for the day as she was called out to the DEO. She had been helping Alex and Maggie with a case involving an alien when it happened. The situation seemed relatively straight forward. There was an alien in the center of the city who had been linked to a variety of crimes. Maggie and Alex had been tracking the alien down for a few weeks when they had finally found a location. They called Kara to come for backup and weren't expecting it to be too hard of a capture. Alex had brought along a small team of DEO agents just in case. They arrived at the location and saw that there was another alien there as well. Supergirl was busy taking on the one alien while Maggie, Alex and the team of DEO agents handled the second one. Supergirl had the alien pinned when suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She looked down to see that the alien had a defense mechanism that caused spikes to come out of its arms and one of them had hit her. She was in pain but managed to get it down before Alex came over to handcuff it. They had gotten both of them and transported them back to the DEO and even though Kara insisted she was fine Alex had made her come back to get checked over.
The spike had a chemical in it that caused Kara's body to heal slower, so Alex had to use stitches to close up the wound on her abdomen. It wasn't too bad but it was causing Kara some discomfort and would for a few days. Kara finished getting stitched up and had Alex drive her back to her and Lena's apartment. She figured Lena would already be asleep but was surprised when she saw her sitting on the couch reading. Lena set her book down when Kara walked and turned towards her.
"Hey, I didn't know what time you would be home tonight," Lena said as she looked at Kara.
"Yeah I had to help Alex at the DEO with something," Kara said as she tried to reach up to get a mug for tea and was hit with the pain from her incision. She yelped in pain and grabbed the counter for a second.
"What's wrong?" Lena asked as she quickly got off the couch to go over to Kara.
"Oh, it's nothing. I got stabbed when I was helping out Alex capture an alien but it's spike caused me to heal slower, so I had to get some stitches put in," Kara said as Lena's face turn to shock.
"Why didn't you let me know," Lena said as she looked to her wife.
"I don't know. I probably was going to tell you at some point, but it really isn't that bad," Kara said as she went to put her stuff down by the couch.
"Kara it doesn't matter that it wasn't bad. We used to tell each other everything. There was a time when you would text me as soon as something happened and let me know that you were fine. It's not just this Kara, it's everything. We don't talk, I feel like I don't even know who you are anymore. I mean what happened to us Kara?" Lena said as she looked into her wife's eyes and Kara stood in silence, not knowing how to answer that question.